Historic Diaries: Floyd 1804
June 12, 1804
Editor's Note:
The French trader hired to go back up the Missouri with them was the elderly Pierre Dorion, who had been in the field for at least 20 years. He had corresponded with Clark's older brother George Rogers Clark from Cahokia in 1780 (a letter now at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Draper Mss. 50J34) and had lived with the Yankton Sioux since the 1780's.
Tuesday June 12 1804
we Set out at the Usial ouer, the day Clear, wind from the west. Came 4 miles. past a Creek on the S. Side Called Plumb Creek, a bout 20 yads wide. the timber in this Bottoms is Cotten wood. 2 miles when we met 5 Cannoes from the Soux nations Loaded with peltry and Greece. thay have been 13 mounthes up the missorea River. Delayed 1/2 day with the French, Bought Some tallow of them. ouer hunters Did not Rettern Last night .one French man hiard to go with us up the missorea who can Speak the Difernt [languages]. encamped on the N. Side. the Land Good Bottom
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